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Rikers Island And The Crisis: Storytelling, Scholarship, Activism, Shana Russell

Early College Folio

This essay was originally shared by the author as the 24th annual W. E. B. Du Bois Memorial Lecture at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. It has been edited slightly for publication.

Family Matters: Feminist Nationalism In 20th Century Egypt, Harry Malinowski

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..2

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………..23

III. Textbook Critique…………………………….34

IV. New Textbook Entry………………………….37

V. Bibliography…………………………………...41

An Impartial Driver: Eleanor Roosevelt And The Drafting Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights (1945-1948), Catherine Rose Lovizio

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

The Sale Of The Romanian-Germans (1969-1989): Migration, Minority Status, And The Construction Of Ceaușescu’S Maverick State, Nicholas Kennan Hermann

Senior Projects Spring 2021

This project attempts to reassess the paid emigration of Romania's German minority, specifically focusing on its role in the formation of Ceaușescu’s Romania as a semi-independent state during the Cold War. Topics explored include Cold War diplomacy, concepts of diaspora and citizenship, and the legacy of the Ceaușescu regime.

Wild Wales: How Cultural Discrimination Transformed Merlin From Brittonic Legends To French Arthurian Romances, Viveca Calista Lawrie

Senior Projects Spring 2021

The legend of King Arthur and his knights of the round table is one of the best-known stories in the Western world. Generally people tend to associate Arthurian legend with fifteenth-century English writing or French romances, but in reality, Arthurian legend has its origins in Brittonic oral tradition. Merlin, specifically, represents the concepts of Brittonic paganism and wildness more than any other Arthurian character. The changes made in the character and the narrative of Merlin, from Brittonic legend to Latin writing and then to French romances, reflect a political and cultural shift in Britain and France. An examination of Merlin …

Blood Vs. Water, Sakinah F. Bennett

Senior Projects Spring 2021

My experiences are me. This project is an excavation of these experiences in order to create consciousness, awareness, assign language, and pay homage to those experiences that have heavily influenced how I move through the world with dance as my medium. I am really interested in the embodiment of history rather than the traditionally written and published history. Acknowledging the history that we hold in our vessels and that history being just as important, present, and valuable as the history we may read.

From Civil Liberties To Social Contract Theory: Hobbes' And Locke's Influence On The Early American Republic, Evan A. Krasner

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..4

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...18

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...31

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………...33

V. Bibliography………………………………….....35

A Historiographical And Pedagogical Pursuit Of The United States In The Atomic Era, Isabel Polletta

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………...3

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...29

III. Textbook Critique……………………………..41

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………..43

V. Bibliography…………………………………....46

Mahatma Gandhi And His Involvement In The Indian Independence Movement, Jihyeong Park

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..1

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...19

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...29

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………..33

V. Bibliography………………………………….....37

Innovation From Above, Below, And Behind: The Linguistics Of The Hebrew Revival, Aviv J. Porath

Senior Projects Spring 2021

This thesis seeks to investigate the unique example of Modern Hebrew’s linguistic revival and determine the historical and linguistic qualities that made it successful. I intend to challenge the common narrative of Hebrew revival as 'miraculous' and isolated from Jewish history. I will demonstrate the long legacy of Hebrew creativity, preservation, and reinvention that formed the foundations the Zionist movement was able to build upon. I also seek to expand the narrative of the revival process itself to more accurately account for the modern result that is Israeli Hebrew. The ‘planned’ element of the revival process, i.e. the well-documented top-down …

Memories Of The Algerian War: A Historiography From Independence To The Present, Melissa Rosenthal

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………..1

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………...19

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...41

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………..44

V. Bibliography………………………………….....47

Pedagogies Of Latin American Independence: An English-Speaking Analysis, Abigail Townend

History - Master of Arts in Teaching

I. Synthesis Essay………………………………3

II. Primary Documents and Headnotes………..20

III. Textbook Critique……………………………...36

IV. New Textbook Entry…………………………..40

V. Bibliography…………………………………....43

Hip-Hopping Over The Great Firewall Of China: Authenticity, Language And Race In The Global Hip Hop Nation, Matice F. Maino

Senior Projects Spring 2021

This paper explores how Chinese youth interact and relate to this form of music and culture, and what this adaptation reveals about authenticity, class, race and regionalization in the age of digitized communication. For this paper, I ethnographically observe how participants experience Chinese Hip Hop as part of the Global spread of Hip Hop, as a cultural phenomenon that relates cosmopolitan marginalized youth identity, digital censorship, shedding light on relations to race, class, nationality and globalization among college aged international Chinese students studying at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson New York.

Martin Margiela And The Japanese Designers: An Exploration Of Cultural Exchange Through Fashion, Bechet Dumaine Allen

Senior Projects Spring 2021

This paper will explore the exchange of culture and the topic of cultural appropriation. Using the Belgian fashion designer Martin Margiela as a case study, it will discuss the way in which he was inspired by Japanese culture and Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo– three Japanese fashion designers who first appeared in Paris in the 1970’s and 80’s.

Mentality Of The German Middle Class And Nazism: The Activation And Transformation Of Existing Antisemitic And Anti-Liberal Tendencies By Rapid Social Changes, Zhengyang Ji

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

How The Hell Did We Get Here? A Look At How The Civil Rights Movement Influenced Campus Activism, Civic Engagement, And Current Movements Around Civil Liberties., Talaya Monea Robinson-Dancy

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.

Black Drugs: Narcotic Temperance And Moral Productivity In Egypt, 1882-1920, Ziv Benjamin Barancik

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Narcotics are often relegated to the histories of crime or of medicine when in fact they can be tremendously relevant to all manner of histories given their unique potential to muddle and delineate all manner of identities. This thesis briefly explores the history of two narcotics—cannabis and opium—in the Muslim world as a whole but focuses most of its attention on Egypt in the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries and on what the activities and rhetorics of three unique social groups advocating for temperance and their own visions of a ‘modern’ Egypt during this time show us …

Power Over The People: How Russia Used Religion To Unite And Control Its Populace During The Eras Of Monarchy And Communism, Roman Pena

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Social Studies of Bard College

Strawberry Ghosts: Lore, Loss & Licentiousness In A 400-Year-Old City, Ella Wheeler Mcgrail

Senior Projects Spring 2021

Old New England towns are viewed as bastions of American History, but most narratives promoted by such places are highly selective, and tend to showcase the white, male, settler-colonial perspective. In this collection of stories, vignettes, personal accounts and historical snapshots, the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire is portrayed through the voices of residents past and present, real and fictional. It seeks to examine the city's history through a deconstructionist, anti-colonial lens and to ultimately tell a story that reflects the true beauty, shame, and complexity of this extraordinary coastal town.